Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H
Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. You have got a great place here. We are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just tu
Outbreak of coronavirus here at home and around the world. Squad here. Reporter sanders will overnight the number of People Campaign in michigan today and joe biden is headed owe to mississippi. Reported to be sick with the and there is a lot at stake for virus in the United States has raised to more than 400. These candidates when voters in and this morning thousands of both states and four others go passengers on a cruise ship to the polls in just two days, being held off the coast of willie. California have learned that the morgan, thank you very much. Well see you again in a few ship will dock tomorrow. Minutes. Chuck todd is nbc political director and moderator of meet meanwhile, italy is taking drastic measures, putting the press. Chuck, good morning, good to see millions of citizens under you. I want to turn to the race to quarantine. A live report just ahead. The white house in a minute but first the response from the and later this morning, a sunday white house to the coronavi
We will come to order we welcome the acting commissioner of cbp mark morgan thank you for being here today we look forward to getting your perspective on cbp priorities and requirements fiscal year 2021 the budget proposes 15. 6 billion of Discretionary Spending by cbp and increases 714 million above the current your level of the total includes 2 billion of 82 miles of barriers and 625 over the current year appropriation for nearly 80 percent of the total fy 2021 increase for cbp overall. I have obvious concerns for spending another 2 billion on border barriers but aside from any debate this administration continues to circumvent the will of congress by diverting millions of dollars for what congress specifically appropriates for this activity. The house bill does not include the funding. Even more to the point of funding proposed would crowd out other investments we all agree our high priority. For instance it is unclear how many officers are funded or sustained in this Budget Congres
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint